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Tetsu Tsukamoto reveals the secret to concept art success

Anima class The Final Fantasy character concept artist believes team work and attention to detail matter most

Infinite Painter SPEEDPAINT A MECH DESIGN

Kobe Sek shares his process of sketching mechs with negative space, creating a vibrant and colourful concept

Procreate 5.2

ANOTHER DIMENSION The accomplished painting app has taken its first step into a larger world, with the ability to work with 3D models. We assess the results

Blender & Photoshop CONCEPT A LIMITLESS GAME ENVIRONMENT

Using simple 3D techniques, Brandt Andrist creates a procedural landscape with countless possibilities…

FXPose

THE PLACE TO SHARE YOUR DIGITAL ART

Dave Gibbons goes back to the future

Game’s afoot The acclaimed Watchmen artist returns to video game development with Beyond a Steel Sky

How To Get More From Your Brushe!

Isis Sousa reveals her favourite Painter 2022 brushes and shows how you can use them to create unique digital art

Photoshop - Reimagining A Comic Hero

David Nakayama explains his process of redesigning and drawing a modern and culturally relevant new version of Zorro

Photoshop - DEPICT THE ICONIC HARLEY QUINN

Join Joshua Swaby as he shares how he creates this month’s stylish cover art, featuring the Joker’s right-hand woman

COMIC BOOK HERO IN WATERCOLOURS

US illustrator BEN HARVEY walks you through his painting process that combines traditional mediums with a digital sketch to create a portrait of the Rocketeer.

Kael Ngu

Pixellated inks Creative inspiration comes in many forms, in this Malaysian artist’s studio

Steve Rude

Gary Evans and Ian Dean meet the comic artist, who has lots to say about his art, his beloved Nexus and everything in between

Finding your voice

Clever art Spanish artist Fernando Dagnino Guerra reveals how his life experiences influenced his own graphic novel, Smart Girl

First Impressions

The elegance of simplicity is key to this watercolourist.

The timeless draw of Judge Dredd

Drokk! The current crop of Judge Dredd artists tell Ian Dean why Mega City One’s famed lawman has stayed the course…

Painting A Successful Freelance Career

Brush up Corel Painter has been used by professional artists for 30 years. Isabelle Staub reflects on how Painter has helped her…

Photoshop - How To Create Spontaneous Art

Ayran Oberto demonstrates the creative approaches he uses to produce colourful portrait art without overthinking anything

ZBrush & Photoshop HOW TO SCULPT A REAL DINOSAUR

Glen Southern breaks down his sculpting workflow and techniques when tackling a concept sculpt of an aquatic, aggressive dinosaur

Painter 2022

MARK MAKING Corel’s flagship digital art software still targets those who are serious about being painterly, but makes concessions for beginner artists, too

Maya, Mari & Photoshop FROM 2D CONCEPT TO 3D PORTRAIT

Character artist Anna Cavasos balances the themes of beauty and horror to visualise a mysterious sorceress enjoying a delicate snack

LAUREN BROWN We're out here too and there's a lot of stuff that we can do with these characters and the way we present ourselves

Inspired by nature, fashion and the desire for greater diversity, this illustrator’s reputation is sure to grow, finds Ian Dean

Erin Hunting

Cluttered fun This Australian artist says she’s used to being watched, by real and unreal eyes…

THE ART OF LOGAN PRESHAW

Ian Dean discovers a vis-dev artist and art director whose approach to life is as bright as his paintings

Why books still matter to artists

Page turners Book sales are on the rise and when it comes to art training the printed page is still important, discovers Ian Dean

ZBrush, KeyShot, Photoshop & Painter CREATE RETRO ART FROM 3D SCANS

Ken Coleman mixes scanned action figures and digital painting to create 80s-inspired fantasy production art

SketchUp & Photoshop Create Anime-Style Scenes

FeiGiap combines SketchUp’s 3D modelling tools with Photoshop colouring techniques to create an anime-style background illustration

ILLUSTRATE AGGRETSUKO IN WATERCOLOURS

Discover how ANNA SOKOLOVA paints a kawaii character from the Netflix anime series Aggretsuko using a range of watercolour effects

Paint Tool SAI - GET BETTER AT PAINT TOOL SAI

Artist Angela Wang (aka awanqi) shows how to compose figures from mythology using symbology coupled with a sense of refinement

Innovator 16

SLIMLINE STYLE The performance of XP-PEN’s display tablet matches its high-end looks and solid build quality

ARTIST PORTFOLIO ZEEN CHIN

The Malaysian illustrator and concept artist mixes familiar styles and themes to make art that’s unusual, unsettling and uniquely his own, learns Gary Evans